I'm currently enlisted in the Air Force and stuck in Afghanastan for the third time. A lot of the guys and girls in the military are city kids now a days. Country boysand girls used to be the norm. They don't get the bug early like we did. So they don't make a point to soak up every thing about the sport and the fire arms. They know what they were tought and that is all most times. My gunner tried to tell me that the GAU-2 Mini onMY chopper shot the same thing as an AK. AK's fire 7.62x39 and Mini's fire 7.62 NATO or 7.62x51(308 Win). I could not convince him other wise until i showed him the two rounds side by side. It's his job to know thesethings, i am aCrew Chief.I also have a buddy that fought over here as aScout Sniper when this first kicked off. He said that they go into every aspect of shooting very indepth. I can out shoot him though.But he is one scary, sneaky SOB. I watched him crawl to less than 50yds of a couple of Whitetail Does before he shot one. Numbers are down all over. None of the branches make enlistment quota and they still want to cut the number we have. All the training our people get is enough to function, any thing else they pick upis up to them or a good superviser.